They certainly are qualified. I believe Andy was acting assistant treasurer of the uni darts club and Gai once attended a women’s self-defence class. Shorty is also ready to lead the party, because before he spent the last 5 minutes in parliament, he once lead the way over a disaster in a huge hole.

Does this mean that labor are worried about losing votes in Canberra? Just wondering.

Very unlikely. I think it’s just fortunate circumstances that both the Canberra MPs had reasons for promotion this time around. They needed to make up the numbers for women to show up the Coalition, and being quite inoffensive with a background in PR, Brodtmann’s a decent choice (though the portfolio seems an odd fit). Leigh has acquitted himself quite well in taking on the Coalition on economic issues, he has academic cred and claims to be above factionalism, so when it inevitably comes time to call out the coalition on their broken economic claims in 2016, he’d be someone good to have in a senior position.

They certainly are qualified. I believe Andy was acting assistant treasurer of the uni darts club and Gai once attended a women’s self-defence class. Shorty is also ready to lead the party, because before he spent the last 5 minutes in parliament, he once lead the way over a disaster in a huge hole.

This is really mean, an unnecessary.

Comments like this from both sides are seriously devaluing our political conversation these days. And yes, I realise this is one of the milder ones.

I’m no fan of Andrew Leigh (for various heritage issue reasons), but he is no less qualified to do something political than anyone else in an ubersafe seat. As Thumper once said, Labor could put up a dead slug and Canberra would all vote it in. We have only ourselves to blame.